Classicly Collection of Books

Notes on Noses

Eden Warwick

It has not been hastily, nor until after long and careful observation, that the theory propounded in the following pages has been published; a theory which, at first sight, may appear to some wild and..

Ricardo's Virus

William Tenn

Ricardo's Virus was viciously prompt: six hours after its light, saffron globules had formed in an open wound, you were dead. And no frantic surgery, no pathetic attempts at drainage, could save you. ..

Working With the Hands

Booker T. Washington

The effort to make an industry profitable should not be the aim of first importance. The teaching should be most emphasised. Our policy at Tuskegee is to make an industry pay its way if possible, but ..

Biology versus Theology

Julian

Biology versus Theology. The Bible: irreconcilable with Science, Experience, and even its own statements“In this 19th century, as at the dawn of modern physical science, the cosmogony of the semi-barb..

Darwinism. The Noachian Flood

Thomas R. R. Stebbing

Darwinism. The Noachian Flood: A lecture delivered before the Torquay Natural History Society, Jan. 31st, 1870.The whole point at issue is the universality of the Noachian Deluge, and the narrative ha..

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress

Henry S. Salt

It may be taken, perhaps, as a sign of the extension of humane ideas that, since its first appearance in 1892, this essay on “Animals’ Rights” has passed through numerous editions, and has been transl..

Moses, not Darwin

B. G. Johns

How shall any such being understand that religion, that prayer, praise, and sacrifice are no mere matter between man and man, but only between him and God?  What does it affect him to be told, or..

Murderer's Base

William J. Brittain

Hervey was good at this damned, dull, hateful task. Not many men were willing to spend nine months out of the year blasting from asteroid to asteroid, checking and servicing and reporting on the great..